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Nearly all job placement begins on-campus with the Law School Placement Office serving as a clearinghouse for both law firm and student, according to the program's director N. June Thompson. More than 700 companies conducted on-campus interviews with nearly 1000 second and third year Law School students last October as part of the School's job placement service. And in March, 90 companies met with several hundred first year students about summer clerkships...
About 150 students in each class of about 500 are interested in working in public interest law, said Ronald W. Fox, who is in charge of public interest job placement at the Law School...
...truths: that unconditional aid leads to long-standing dependency and that the impoverished children of this nation cannot merely be abandoned. The new approach -- being tried with some success in states such as Massachusetts, California, New Jersey and New York -- is to require recipients to enter training and job-placement programs. In some of the proposals, the Federal Government would become the employer of last resort...
...instance, Masters' criticism that prefects met their freshmen too late this year (after classes had started) is well taken. But that decision was based on widespread complaint that prefect arrival on the first day of Freshman Week last year was too early: prefects twiddled their thumbs while freshmen took placement tests. Next year the program will be able to take both experience into account in striking a balance, perhaps at the weekend before classes start, so that prefects can help freshmen think about course selection...
Frazzled urban professionals love them. Once a week Joe Meissner, 39, who runs an executive placement service in San Francisco, reroutes his calls, takes off his vest, loosens his tie and turns himself over to Corporate Stressbusters. They bring the equipment: a stool, a 3-in.-thick black cushion and a pair of hands. "Stress goes right into my shoulders," sighs Meissner. "They knead it all out of me." Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles boast similar services. In New York City, Attorney Peter Kupersmith calls the quarter-hour sessions devoted to his neck and shoulders "miraculous and a crucial part...